The Meaning Of Life

The human race is a curious species; they thirst for knowledge and seek answers to impossible questions. They turn the impossible into the possible. They wonder about their existence and how it came to be. They make theories about life and modify them over time. The books The Grand Design by Stephan Hawking and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams provide insightful opinions of the true meaning of life. They both provide observations of the theory of uncertainty, the perception of reality as well as the answer to the universe.

The theory of uncertainty is an important concept when examining the meaning of life because one can never be certain about anything. The uncertainty theory helps one consider every single possible answer to a question before coming to a conclusion. According to Stephen Hawking “Quantum physics tells us that nothing is ever located at a definite point because if it were, the uncertainty in momentum would have to be infinite. (73, Hawking and Mlodinow) Take into consideration the buckyball experiment, in which scientists shot buckyballs, which are made of carbon atoms at a barrier with two slits. Typically, most of the balls would shoot back and some would go through the slits. But, one must consider that according to the quantum model there is no definite position for the buckyballs during the time it is between the start point and the end point. This would mean that the buckyballs could take every possible pathway between the points. According to quantum physics each particle also has the probability of being found anywhere in the universe. “Given the state of a system at some time, the laws of nature determine the probabilities of various futures and pasts rather than determining the fu...

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...The theory also suggests that in fact many universes were created out nothing. These universes are created through physical law and they can have every possible history. Which in turn means that this theory does not need the help of supernatural being. The answer to the universe does not have one definite answer but many.

Humans are fighters; they refuse to give up until they are satisfied. They continue to seek answers to find the deeper meaning in life. The books The Grand Design by Stephan Hawking and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams proved this with their statements attempting to express the true meaning of life by providing observations on the theory of uncertainty, the perception of reality as well as the answer to the universe. To find the meaning of life one must understand the universe and how it behaves in the grand scheme of it all.